Quote #132
Shakspeare never has six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven: but this does not refute my general assertion.
More from Samuel Johnson
- So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an eviden…
- It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
- Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.
- That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
- I refute it thus.
- Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney.'
- I [Boswell] happened to say, it would be terrible if he should not find a speedy opportunity of returning to London, and be confined in so …
- A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over e…